Meal planning for the week is taking the time to plan a full week’s worth of nutritious meals. The challenge in meal planning can often be selecting meals that are both healthy and that you and your family will enjoy.
Meal planning weekly can seem like a lot of work, but there are ways to get help with it. If you need help with a healthy solution to meal planning, sign up for the DishQuo app. Our weekly meal planning app creates the weekly menu plan, generates your grocery list and even orders the groceries for you.
Meal planning is important for many reasons. Meeting health goals, managing chronic illness, staying within a budget and better time management are just a few. Just think of all the extra trips to the grocery store you could avoid. Imagine having a stress-free evening feeding your family a healthy dinner every night!
We asked Marcos Rojas, DishQuo Founder & CEO, about the benefits of a healthy lifestyle and for his best meal planning insight. This is what he told us:
Q: What makes the DishQuo meal plan effective in your life?
A: “I believe that no matter what goals or commitment you are aiming to achieve, you should have an effective plan and make it easy to execute and accomplish. Although, I admit I’m not always perfect myself, but when I create a plan I typically stick to it.
Meal planning, or rather planning your meals in advance, can really make it easy for you to stay on track and avoid having to maintain the willpower to make the right choices every single meal. For example, if you eat 4 meals a day you have to maintain the willpower to make the right choices an entire 28 times in just 1 week! In one month, that’s 120 times you have to maintain the willpower to make the right food choices.
Rather than making willpower your strategy for eating well, I recommend that you set yourself up for success in the beginning. At DishQuo, we have created an effective meal planning strategy for you that’s backed by science. We go even one step further and make it really simple for you by instantly creating a custom weekly meal plan you can edit and then even get the groceries delivered by one of our grocery partners.
DishQuo is basically my planning partner in eating healthy. It helps me stay on track with my fitness and health goals as well as the needed vitality to do all of the things I do on a regular basis.
Overall, DishQuo has been that missing piece I was searching for. I think to hit any goal you need to have a plan and make it easy, and DishQuo really provides that simple, convenient structure for people including myself.
So, if you want to succeed, then plan upfront and make it easier for yourself. Abraham Lincoln once said, ‘Give me 6 hours to cut down a tree and I will spend the first 4 sharpening the axe.’ That’s a great philosophy we should all put to work.”
Q: How do you integrate meal planning into your life?
A: “On Sundays, I do all of the planning for personal and professional aspects of my life. I also get my groceries on Sundays. I have the same breakfast every morning which is a smoothie, so I skip the breakfasts in DishQuo but for the lunches and dinners I plan out in advance with recipes that are quick, easy and delicious that I have created before.
The DishQuo app is able to provide more variety from the same old recipes that I’ve come accustomed to making. Not only does it make my weekly meals more exciting, it also saves me time and energy by taking care of the meal plan and grocery list for me.”
Q: What are the biggest benefits you have seen?
A: “DishQuo helps me stay on track with my nutrition on a regular basis. When I’m able to set a plan and make it easy, I stick to it. This helps me stay accountable and hit my health and fitness goals.
Also, DishQuo saves me time. The meals are quick and easy to prepare. The grocery list is created for me. And I don’t have to make decisions every day on what’s for each meal—the plan is already there and ready in an instant.”
Q: What was the moment you knew that you needed to create DishQuo?
A: “It wasn’t a specific moment. It was many moments that pushed me to create DishQuo.
First, my own experience and struggles with my health and fitness goals made me curious and motivated to learn more. I have always been passionate about my own health and fitness, and I was always looking for a better solution.
Secondly, it was uncovering the impact insulin has on healthy eating. After that, I knew that I had to share my discovery. I just kept thinking about an easy, convenient way for people to eat healthy based on insulin and effectively incorporate it into their daily lives. From that, DishQuo was born.”
Q: What separates DishQuo from other meal planning competitors that you see out there?
A: “What makes us different is the science, the convenience and the enjoyable experience all encompassed in our easy meal planning app.
At DishQuo, we have developed a better way to eat. What we focus on when we develop our recipes are multiple aspects that affect insulin levels in your body. It’s the foundation of every recipe and meal plan that we build. Did you know that insulin is the hormone that controls fat storage? Insulin acts like a traffic signal that tells the body what can get used as energy and what should be stored as fat. So it’s important to optimize it.
By making this our focus, we can not only increase and/or balance your energy, boost your immune system and increase your health, but can help you lose unhealthy body fat and maintain it.
We’re also different in that we believe you don’t need calorie counting and extreme and restrictive diets to achieve your goals.
We believe that there is a better way to eat that empowers you to have the flexibility to make smart choices and enjoy delicious foods that fit your taste preferences.
The convenience & enjoyable experience is really a game changer, too. The DishQuo app makes it easy to create an entire meal plan the way you want it, create a grocery list and get it delivered from your favorite grocery store—in less than 2 minutes.
Our quick, easy recipes are made to be simple. For example, some recipes are only 5-10 minutes of prep time then you put it in the oven or slow cooker and that’s it: a delicious, budget friendly and healthy home cooked meal is made.”
Eating healthy is often complicated – but it doesn’t have to be. Thanks to the simple and convenient science-based meal planning app DishQuo, it’s now easier than ever to have nutritious, delicious and exciting food options.
Take the headache out of healthy eating. Download the DishQuo app today and get 2 weeks free!
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